Month: January 2023

By JONATHAN J. COOPER Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has praised President Joe Biden’s weekend trip to the U.S.-Mexico border and his stepped-up efforts to combat illegal immigration. Hobbs looked for balance between get-tough border hawks and immigration advocates focused on a humanitarian approach in her first state of the state

By BEN FINLEY and DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A Virginia police chief says a 6-year-old student fired the handgun that wounded a Virginia first-grade teacher while she was teaching class. Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew on Monday offered the first description of how the shooting happened. He had previously

By SEAN MURPHY Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Department of Corrections says a condemned inmate’s spiritual advisor cannot be inside the death chamber during his execution on Thursday. In a statement provided to The Associated Press on Monday, DOC spokesman Josh Ward said death row inmate Scott Eizember’s minister has a

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities in Puerto Rico have arrested Randy Ortiz Acevedo of the popular reggaeton duo Jowell & Randy on domestic violence charges after a judge ruled there was sufficient evidence against the singer. Prosecutor Anthony Oyola told reporters that Ortiz was detained Monday on a $15,000 bond. A publicist for

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota’s chief elections officer is calling on state lawmakers to make it easier for residents to vote while protecting elections officials from threats and intimidation. Key elements of Secretary of State Steve Simon’s agenda are included in an elections package that fellow Democrats in the

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Several hundred protesters expressed anger and frustration, and demanded justice Monday for a Bangladeshi American college student who was shot and killed by police in the Boston suburb of Cambridge last week, a shooting that has drawn attention from Bangladeshi media. The rally outside Cambridge City Hall on Monday was organized

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A federal judge has put a temporary hold New Jersey’s new legislation drafted after the U.S. Supreme Court expanded gun rights last year. The judge suggested Monday that the law infringes on the public’s Second Amendment rights. Three members of Second Amendment rights groups who also have carry permits filed the

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An estimated $1.1 billion Mega Millions jackpot drawing has people lined up at convenience stores across the country to buy tickets. Theirs are longshot hopes of winning a massive prize, but the owners of shops and gas stations selling the tickets also have a chance

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. government says it’s investing $1 million to establish a park-and-ride system for Puerto Rico’s El Yunque National Forest. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says some 1.2 million people visit the forest every year, with up to 3,000 cars competing for 300 parking spaces each day. The department

By MICHELLE CHAPMAN AP Business Writer The Securities and Exchange Commission is charging McDonald’s former CEO Stephen Easterbrook with making false and misleading statements to investors about the circumstances leading to his firing in November 2019. Easterbrook was ousted for engaging in an inappropriate personal relationship with a McDonald’s employee in violation of company policy.

By JOHN WAWROW and CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Bills safety Damar Hamlin said he returned to Buffalo on Monday “with a lot of love on my heart” to continue his recovery in a hospital there, a week after going into cardiac arrest and having to be resuscitated on the field

By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University has rescinded a fellowship it had offered to a leading human rights activist over what he says was his group’s criticism of Israel. Kenneth Roth, who headed Human Rights Watch until recently, was recruited last year by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human

BOSTON (AP) — The wife of a late Massachusetts man is suing the companies involved in the 2021 production of “American Horror Story” on Cape Cod. She alleges in the lawsuit filed last week in federal court in Boston that their lack of precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19 led to his death. Patricia

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s socialist government has ordered the arrest of three exiled former lawmakers at the forefront of renewed efforts to unseat President Nicolas Maduro. Dinorah Figuera leads an all-female team selected last week by fellow opposition politicians to lead the National Assembly that was voted into office in 2015. That opposition-controlled assembly

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico ended 2022 with 7.82% annual inflation, the highest rate in more than two decades. What Mexican families felt most was the 14.14% annual inflation in food prices. The National Statistics Institute said Monday that food suffered the highest price increases. By comparison, inflation in 2021 ran at 7.36%. Mexico’s central

By CARA RUBINSKY Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — From an AI oven that promises to warn you when your food is about to burn to a mixing bowl designed to take the hassle out of tracking calories, food tech has been a key theme at this year’s CES tech show in Las Vegas. Analyst

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press/Report for America SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Liberal Democrat Tina Kotek unveiled measures to combat homelessness as she was sworn in as Oregon’s new governor. In her inaugural address at the state Capitol in Salem on Monday, she said she will declare a homeless state of emergency and sign an executive

By JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government has wasted no time implementing its ultra-nationalist agenda. In less than two weeks, it has adopted a seemingly petty ban on displaying the Palestinian flag and shaken the foundations of Israel’s democracy with a proposed legal assault on the Supreme Court. Those moves

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The Vatican has reopened the investigation into the 1983 disappearance of the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee. The development confirmed Monday comes months after a new Netflix documentary purported to shed new light on the case and after the family asked the Italian Parliament to take

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A prosecutor told jurors at the outset of a death penalty trial that the man charged with killing eight people along a New York City bike path in 2017 was proud of the destruction he left behind and wanted the flag of his terrorist group put

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s independent senator says the U.S. risks enabling the spread of extremism in Europe if it stopped providing support to Ukraine in its war with Russia. Sens. Angus King of Maine and Jack Reed of Rhode Island traveled to Kyiv last week to meet with Ukraine

By JULIE CARR SMYTH Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A Democratic law firm has sued over Ohio’s new election law, which imposes a strict photo ID requirement and shortens windows for returning and curing ballots. The Elias Law Group alleges the provisions impose “needless and discriminatory burdens” on voting. The lawsuit was filed in

KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard repatriated 273 migrants to Matanzas, Cuba, over the weekend following interdictions off the Florida Keys. Since August more than 4,400 migrants from Cuba and Haiti have made their way by boat to the state. And over New Year’s weekend, more than 700 mostly Cuban migrants arrived

HIGH POINT, N.C. (AP) — Police say a shooting that left five dead in North Carolina over the weekend occurred when a man shot and killed his wife and three children and then himself. The High Point Police Department issued a news release saying that 45-year-old Robert Crayton Jr. was responsible for Saturday’s killings. The

By JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear the appeals of two brothers who were sentenced to death for four fatal shootings in a soccer field in December 2000 known as “the Wichita massacre.” Former Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said Monday that the high court’s

By COLLEEN LONG and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Biden administration says Iran’s sale of lethal drones to Russia for use in its ongoing invasion of Ukraine means the country may be “contributing to widespread war crimes.” National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan leveled the charge against Iran on Monday as he

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has convened a security meeting with the prime minister and some of his ministers to discuss security issues amid the war in neighboring Ukraine, including Kyiv’s request for delivery of Western-made heavy battle tanks. A presidential aide said the request for German-made Leopard 2 tanks which Poland,

By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors in New York have begun laying out their case against Robert Hadden, a former gynecologist accused of sexually abusing scores of patients over two decades, including the wife of former presidential candidate Andrew Yang. Two Manhattan hospitals have already agreed